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Veronica Guerin was murdered June 26, 1996.
http://www.truthusa.com/NewsInternetGuerin.html
10th anniversary of journalist Veronica Guerin's murder ping.
Guerin's brother welcomes dismissal of Meehan appeal
Veronica Guerin's brother is now crime reporter with same paper she worked for.
“’Devil’s Advocate’ Rejects Fraud Allegations”
11:04am UK, Wednesday February 16, 2011
Gary Mitchell, Sky News Online
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http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/di-stefano-held-on-british-warrant-493625.html
“Di Stefano held on British warrant”
Tuesday, February 15, 2011 - 04:05 PM
SNIPPET: “High-profile lawyer Giovanni di Stefano, who once acted as a consultant to Saddam Hussein’s defence team, has been arrested on suspicion of fraud on a British warrant in Spain.”
SNIPPET: “He also defended former Iraqi Foreign Minister Tarik Aziz, the international face of the Saddam regime, and convicted drug dealer Patrick ‘Dutchy’ Holland, who was named during his 1997 trial by a garda as the man who shot journalist Veronica Guerin.”
http://www.firstpost.com/topic/person/veronica-guerin-profile-20151.html
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“Was Veronica Guerin suspect allowed to escape because he knew too much?”
By Gemma O’Doherty
Thursday January 12 2012
SNIPPET: “GARDAI have refused to dismiss a sensational new claim that they were involved in a top-level cover-up in the case of murdered priest Fr Niall Molloy.
The allegation has been read by thousands of people who bought the Christmas bestseller Badfellas by crime writer Paul Williams.
In it, he says that notorious Dublin criminal John Traynor returned a stolen Garda file on the Molloy case in return for a promise that charges against him would be dropped.
Williams says: “The file contained notes and statements that certain people in power did not want in the public domain.”
John Traynor is the prime suspect in the murder of Sunday Independent journalist Veronica Guerin. He was the crime reporter’s main underworld source, and prior to her murder was seeking an injunction to prevent her writing about his connections with organised crime.
He fled the country after her death in 1996 yet gardai have always claimed they did not have sufficient evidence to link him to her murder.”
http://searchtopics.independent.ie/topic/Veronica_Guerin
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“A little bit of the magic has gone out of our world”
Sunday January 22 2012
SNIPPET: “For a man who wasn’t much given to funeral-going himself, Aengus Fanning got a fine send-off from the congre-gation that packed the Church of St Joseph, Glasthule, Co Dublin, last Friday.”
SNIPPET: “He left Tralee to become a trainee reporter in the Midland Tribune in Birr in 1964, working for his uncle and marrying his first wife Mary while living in Birr. He joined the Irish Independent as a news reporter in 1969 and became agricultural correspondent in 1973 and news analysis editor in the early Eighties.
In 1984 he was appointed editor of the Sunday Independent in succession to Michael Hand and it was a job that consumed him for the next 28 years until his death this week at the age of 69. As his son Dion said last week: “He died with his boots on . . . he didn’t see the point in retirement.””
SNIPPET: “Special mention was made of Bernie Guerin, mother of the murdered Sunday Independent reporter Veronica Guerin, who was accompanied to the funeral by Veronica’s husband Graham Turley and their son Cathal.”
A Look at Iran
http://www.truthusa.com/IRAN.html
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2241843/posts
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http://www.irishexaminer.com/world/kfidaucwqloj/rss2/
“Ex-CAB boss’s role in weapons sting”
By Lynne Kelleher
MONDAY, JANUARY 16, 2012
SNIPPET: “FORMER CAB boss Barry Galvin has told how he helped to nab an international supplier for the Iranian missile programme in his latest role in cleaning up the criminal justice system in the Seychelles.
The man responsible for waging war on drugs barons in Ireland after the murder of Veronica Guerin was hired by the government of the Indian Ocean islands to help combat corruption and money laundering.
In the RTÉ series Hostile Environment, the former chief legal officer and founder of CAB reveals how he was signed up to help clean up the paradise islands by bringing in the Al Capone-style laws that collared Ireland’s biggest crime lords.
He said: “After the shooting of Veronica Guerin there was as serious confidence crisis in the justice system and police in Ireland. The government embarked on a process of taking the money out of crime and drug trafficking and organised crime. It is nabbing the bad guy’s money.”
THE SUN.co.uk - THE IRISH SUN: "TRAYNOR FREED FROM JAIL 'BY CHRISTMAS'" by Joanne McElGunn, Crime Editor (SNIPPET: "He fled Ireland in 1996 after the horror slaying of brave crime reporter Veronica, 37. And two years later, gangland boss John Gilligan, 60, told the High Court it was Traynor, 63, who had her shot dead.") (April 27, 2012)